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JULY 27,2015 - - - - 123,549 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST 101,169 waiting for a kidney 15,217 wait-listed for a liver 1,056 waiting for a pancreas 1,973 needing a Kidney-Pancreas 4,153 waiting for a life-saving heart 1,549 waiting for a lung 45 waiting for a heart-lung 254 waiting for small bowel One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals An average of 21 people die everyday while waiting for a transplant. You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HERE

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Support grows to help East Bay immigrant get kidney transplant

Contra Costa Times | Hannah Dreier

An effort to save the life of an Oakland father who was denied an organ transplant because of his immigration status has gained a legion of supporters across the country.

Jesus Navarro now has a website, an online petition with thousands of supporters, several lawyers and a laundry list of groups organizing on his behalf.

The soft-spoken 35-year-old has a willing donor in his wife and private insurance to pay for a kidney transplant. But UC San Francisco Medical Center refuses to perform the operation because administrators can't be sure he will be able to afford follow-up care given his status as an illegal immigrant.

Support has poured in for Navarro since this newspaper published his story Tuesday,and his allies are trying to set up a meeting with the UC administrators who turned him down.

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